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Sheller-Globe Corporation was a U.S. auto parts manufacturer and industrial conglomerate based in Toledo, Ohio.Formed in 1966 on a heritage of much older companies, Sheller-Globe grew through the acquisition (and divesture) of many other businesses before it was acquired by United Technologies Corporation in 1989.
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Hendrie & Bolthoff Manufacturing & Supply Company, including Casper Supply Company subsidiary (1961) Scheufler Supply Company (1961) Allbright's Auto Parts (1962) E. S. Youse Company, including Bee and Y. A. Yerger subsidiaries (1962) Gaul, Derr & Shearer Company (1962) General Products Corporation, acquired from Marco Hecht (1962)
The company was formed in 1930 by the merger of Libbey-Owens's sheet-glass operation with the Edward Ford Plate Glass Company, both located in Toledo. [1] [2] The company's heritage dates back to 1818 with the founding of the New England Glass Company of East Cambridge, Massachusetts, which relocated to Toledo, Ohio, and in 1892 changed its ...
The company produced generators to power early day buggy lamps. In 1927, Electric Autolite acquired the Prest–O–Lite Battery Company, which produced automotive batteries, from The Union Carbide Corporation. In 1934, an Autolite facility in Toledo, Ohio was the site of the Auto-Lite strike.
In 1910, the company relocated to a site adjacent to the Lehigh Valley Railroad and Bound Brook in South Plainfield, New Jersey. Charles A. Dana joined the company in 1914 and renamed it the Dana Corporation in 1946. Production of universal joints was moved to a new plant in Toledo, Ohio, between 1926 and 1928. [1]